Hunters Association

"To become a Professional Hunter, two requirements have to be fulfilled: passing the Hunter Exam and learning how to use Nen."

Hunter Exam

The Hunter Exam is organized in a varying amount of Phases, with each Phase being designed to test the candidates' skills and potential—they are also used to reduce the number of candidates. There are usually 4 to 6 Phases required to complete the Hunter Exam. There maybe bonus stages are added to further test the candidates. The content of each Phase changes every year so as not to give an advantage to returning applicants, the Proctors (NPC's) what the Phases will test. The Chairman oversees the exam and settles disputes between Proctors when necessary.

Finding the Exam?

The Hunter Exam takes place annually or depending when it is given. All applicants are held in equal consideration. Reaching the area in which the Hunter Examination is held is an extremely difficult challenge. Each year for the Proctors(NPC's) must make it difficult to reduce the number of applicants, the Hunter Association hires judges (Also NPC's) to pick out the best candidates to proceed to the area where the Hunter Exam is held. If you an applicant is deemed unworthy by one of these judges, they will be turned away even if they make it to the Examination site.

Once this area has been reached, candidates have to make their way to the Hunter Examination site. However, no applicant knows when or where the Hunter Examination will be held and it is impossible to find without a Navigator. All candidates must find a Navigator to take them to the exam, but to do this they must pass a series of test and traps. In fact, the Navigators themselves (NPC's) will set up a test for the candidates to see if they are good enough to take the Hunter Exam.[/color] If such test is passed, the Navigators will take the applicants to the floor of the First Phase.

The Secret Hunter Exam

Although the formal examination annually occurs, there is a second, unstated part of the Hunter Examination that requires every Pro Hunter to go out into the world and accomplish: learning the basic principles of Nen. One only officially becomes a professional Hunter after passing the Exam; a Hunter is only considered as such by his peers when he learns how to use Nen. It doesn't matter how long it takes, but one will be unable to take on most Hunter jobs without learning the skill—Nen is seen as the minimum required martial skill to become a Hunter. To meet this requirement, a Hunter must either find a teacher (Traveling mode of this RP: Role Play) and learn in secrecy (because doing so in public augments the risk of people with ill intent learning a potentially dangerous skill) or through a method known as initiation. However, some already have knowledge of Nen before entering the exam and are thus instantly "qualified" if they pass it. It is known so far that all Hunters find a way to start their training shortly after the exam, therefore the difficulty of this requirement is reduced mostly to one's own adaptability to learn Nen.

Hunters who are dedicated to uncovering ruins and reviving ancient societies

Hunters who feel a deep love for nature; their job involves the study and preservation of undiscovered animal species. There are two subcategories of Beast Hunter—Exotic Game Hunters and UMA (Unidentified Mysterious Animal) Hunters.